Starting with the Great Commandment to ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength,’ LEAD’s purpose is to develop leaders with deep, bold, consequential faith in Jesus Christ.

The 2012 TX-LA Gulf Coast Synod made a big decision to focus on leadership development. LEAD began with a listening process and over time it became clear that the Shema, and in Jesus’ words, the Great Commandment, were at the core of what it means to be a Christian leader.